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July 16, 1975 Mr. Alphaeus Cole R.F.D. Beaver Brook Road Lyme, Coanectlcut 06371 Dear Mr. Cole: I was delighted to have your postcard of July 6 and to talk with you cm the telephone on the following day. I also offer you congraeulatloiis, again, on your 99th birthday. It is wonderful to live so long aad to have stich a prodturtive life. I hope you received v^ %rlre of congratulations oa the date of your birthday. I was Interested in your cosments which you fotmd about Pamela Colraan Smith in the diary. I hope I will have an opportunity to see it. As I may have sientloned to you, our Psfoela Colnan Smith exhibition will open at the Delaware Art Mtjseuis on September 11. It would be wonderful if you could come down for it. We will use your portrait (•eidaan) of Pamela as the frontispiece for the catalogue which is quite handsome. Then the eidilbltion will travel to the Princeton University Art Museian where it will rm in November and Deceid>er. As to the painting (or drawing) «4ilch Pamela gave you on '¦ 'ftp-h your birthday, which 3«)u value at $500, I understand that you might be willing to sell it. I would certainly like to discuss the question of buying it from you. Is&there any way that I could get to see the woric? I raillze that you will be in Lyme during the siamaer aid will probably not be coming down to New York. If you were to come to the city, I would be glad to come there to meet you at any given day. On the other hand, is there anyone at the Chelsea Hotel who could show me into your quarters and let me have a look at the painting, even though you were not there? This of course would have to be arranged by you, if you agreed with the idea. In any case, the thought of biiylng the picture is Interesting to me.

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